Friday, May 13, 2005

What liberal media?

The biggest anti-US protests since the fall of the Taliban have spread across Afghanistan as unrest sparked by alleged abuse of the Koran at the US jail in Guantanamo Bay left three more people dead.

Seven people have been killed and at least 76 injured during three days of violent demonstrations, all of them in clashes with security forces and police in conservative towns east of the capital Kabul.

Angry Afghans shouting "Death to America" poured onto the streets of Kabul itself for the first time today and protests at the reported religious slur have now broken out in 10 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces.